Moonlark Turned Evil

Inktober Special: Bounce

Hello there my friends

Okay so the next chapter is Fortune and i have zero idea what to do with it😃

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Blaze Fincher screwed up his face as he went flying twenty meters in the air, towards the high ceiling of the Neverseen training room.

"THE HELL IS THIS?!" he shouted at Pixel, who sat behind a glass panel in the wall with Elen Sei beside him, connected to all of them through a headset.

The Technopath chuckled dryly as Blaze whistled by, more outraged than scared of the drop as he fell back down towards the ground.

"FAYN CLAUDO, CATCH ME OR ELSE!" Blaze screamed.

"I can hear you, I can hear you, stop trying to make me deaf," Fayn said, jogging through the streets of the holographic map. He caught Blaze easily, setting him on the ground. "There, there, little princess."

Blaze punched him.

Sophie appeared between them in a flash, deflecting the attack before it made contact. "Pixel," she spoke into her earpiece, "isn't this a little too powerful?"

[I can adjust the power], Pixel said. There was a faint clicking sound from his side, and a pause before he said, [Fincher, try it again.]

"ABSOLUTELY NOT!" Blaze went off like a firecracker.

"Shut up." Rayli Foh kicked him from behind, sending him stumbling several paces.

"You're causing a ruckus," Serena Alfindale said, crossing her arms.

"What's new about that?" Fayn snarked, latching his own humour into the girls' jokes. "He screams so much I'm surprised his vocal chords haven't resigned from their duties. Underpaid and overworked," he exclaimed, pretending to cry.

Blaze groaned. "Will there ever be a day when you stop teasing me?"

"Never, Blaizy," Fayn grinned.

"WHO'S YOUR BLAIZY—?!"

Rayli kicked him again.

[Now, now], Elen reasoned, her voice clear through their earpieces, [let's not fight, shall we? Blaze, give Pixel's invention another go.]

"Absolutely not," Blaze ground out.

"I'll do it," Sophie offered. She stepped out from where she'd been standing between Blaze and Fayn to prevent any sort of fighting (despite it being a holographic realm, she was still concerned for her best friend's safety), walking a few meters away from the others.

"She has more guts than you," Fayn informed Blaze.

"I don't want to go flying twenty meters into the air—basic self preservation."

"But I'll catch you, Blaizyyyy~"

"I'll literally kill you."

Rayli stomped on Blaze's foot. "You're breaking Sophie's concentration."

Sophie spread her arms in a swift motion, activating the device. A blue square appeared below her right foot, launching her into the air. Pixel had miscalculated—instead of lowering the power, he'd raised it. Thus, Sophie was propelled a good thirty meters. Luckily, this training room had been built specifically for cityscape maps with skyscrapers. The ceiling was still far above her.

"Higher than you and she's not even screaming," Serena snickered, elbowing Blaze.

"I'm not above punching you," Blaze stated shamelessly.

[You're not above anything], Ruy sniped, grinning.

"Ruy," Sophie said, recognizing his voice as she fell through the air, making no attempt to stop.

[That's me!]

[You sound like a moron], Alvar's voice joined the communications link.

[That's because he is one], Glimmer replied.

The three of them had joined Elen and Pixel at the training room's control panel, and they could be seen through the glass.

[Ouch], Ruy gasped out. [How could my own Guild talk to me like this?! Aren't we supposed to be sworn teammates for life?!]

[We're the only people who can take down that ego of yours a peg or two], Pixel smiled.

[Sophie, are you planning to crash into the ground or what?] Fayn asked. She was far enough away from him that she could only hear his voice through her earpiece.

"Oh, right," she realized. "Pixel, could you lower the strength this time?"

[Of course].

Sophie waved her hand again, letting the blue square appear on the ground where she was going to fall. Angling herself, she dropped onto it with one foot, springing into the air again. It took a few times to get the hang of the whole thing, and then she was off.

"It's good, Pixel," she said as she turned a backflip, narrowly stopping herself from crashing into the window of an office building by propelling herself in the opposite direction. "I think this can be used."

[Good to hear].

Sophie flew past the Sea Dragon Guild, standing on the ground as they followed her with their eyes. "What are you waiting for?" she asked. "Aren't you going to give it a go?"

Fayn bounced after her fearlessly, wobbling awkwardly as he crashed into a stop sign. "Ow."

"You can't feel pain in a holographic body, silly," Serena said as she sailed gracefully past him.

"You can if you have a good enough imagination." He flipped off the stop sign with an easy swing of his arm.

Blaze jumped into the air, turning a few times. His prior fear of crashing into the ceiling (or the floor) seemed to have been forgotten as he started using the device like a fish took to water.

Rayli, unlike the rest of them, refused to jump—"It's undignified," she informed them in English with a scathing British accent—and instead climbed up a series of squares as if they were a staircase. She probably managed to keep herself from bouncing all over the place using her ability. (She was a Guster).

Pixel, however, was a mischievous imp. Without warning anyone, he changed the settings for the device once more.

They all went flying, shouting varying levels of profanities at him as windows broke and crash landings occurred.

"Heque Sel!" Rayli snapped as she bounced higher than she was supposed to, thus loosing her footing and falling a few meters before she was able to righten her course with another square.

"She pulled out the real name," Serena whispered to Sophie in mock horror.

[Rayli Foh], Pixel said back, the amusement clear in his voice.

"I will track you down," Rayli warned him.

His only response was to tweak the settings even further.